البرزخ (Soul Sleep)
Video installation, 1 min 4 seconds, color, sound, plasma-cut aluminum, digital tablet
2024
Video installation, 1 min 4 seconds, color, sound, plasma-cut aluminum, digital tablet
2024
As a child, I recall being told that our souls left our bodies while
we were asleep, wandering among another souls, their adventures
coloring our dreams until they returned to our bodies before we
woke up. This story draws some truth from the Arabic term Barzakh,
the closest term being purgatory i.e. the liminal space where souls
go to before they met their creator.
This was one of the earliest instances where I grew conscious
of the potential of a spiritual plane separate from the familiar physical
plane, sparking a lifelong intrigue surrounding the
intangible forces, hidden in plain sight, that occupy everyday life.
The artwork explores how dreams reach through and beyond our bodies, deep into our subsonscious to generate something hyperreal. Through repeatedly drawing animation frames by hand, entering a trance-like state, I wrestle between lucidity and submission. The work’s metal frame is a concentric portal between our waking and dream worlds, pulling viewers from the physical into the metaphysical.
The artwork explores how dreams reach through and beyond our bodies, deep into our subsonscious to generate something hyperreal. Through repeatedly drawing animation frames by hand, entering a trance-like state, I wrestle between lucidity and submission. The work’s metal frame is a concentric portal between our waking and dream worlds, pulling viewers from the physical into the metaphysical.
